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A donation wasn't quite enough, so a St. Petersburg man rounds up 340,000 bottles of water and trucks it to the hurricane victims. By TOM ZUCCO, Times Staff Writer Published September 3, 2005 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sean Scott couldn't look at the images of devastation coming out of the Gulf Coast anymore, so like thousands of others in

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My friend, Sean Scott organized and implemented the delivery of 340,000 bottles of water to the disaster zone. He arrived on site so quickly that the water was off-loaded from the trucks and put directly on Black Hawks for transport. How could one guy see a need, develop a timely plan, and implement it so quickly when the agencies charged with this task cannot? Call me Toll Free 1-877-793-9290

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News - IT Security News - SC Magazine UK: "'Radical changes in the information environment have exposed a requirement for significant changes in the way law enforcement organisations address the ever-higher workloads brought about by the increasing use of technology in all areas of crime,' says Dr Andrew Jones of BT. ‘The US has created a total of 10 Regional Computer Forensic Laboratories led by

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Plasse v. Tyco Elecs. Corp., 2006 WL 2623441 (D. Mass. Sept. 7, 2006).: "In this wrongful termination case, defendant Tyco sought to prove that plaintiff had misrepresented his credentials when he applied for employment. At issue were several versions of plaintiff’s resume, some of which had indicated he held an M.B.A.; plaintiff suggested those may have been submitted by “someone else,” possibly

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A Cybersecurity Pro Talks Shop: "Small businesses are increasingly being targeted with viruses and identity theft. This former White House adviser offers tips on playing defense . . . Howard Schmidt, former White House cybersecurity adviser (he served as vice-chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board for 15 months, from 2002 to 2003) and current president and CEO of R&H

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No Signature on Credit Cards "The signature, that individual mark of integrity, will soon suffer another blow as shopping loses its personal touch. In the name of cutting down on fraud, credit-card users will be required to key in their personal identification numbers instead of signing sales receipts. The change, which is expected to be rolled out in Canada by 2010, is another step in the

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Trinidad and Tobago's Newsday : newsday.co.tt :: "Banks are pouring money into building formidable defences against computer hackers but are only just waking up to what may be a bigger threat — the physical theft of client information by criminals in the office. “You can have a fortress-like security system, but if you are not terribly discriminating with consultants and temporary employees, that

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Job-Hoppers, Take a Tip from the Bratz"In toy stores, she's a dancing princess, a mermaid, or a hip teenager. But behind the scenes, Barbie is kicking down doors and taking names. In a 58-page complaint filed Nov. 20 in federal court in Riverside, Calif., Mattel (MAT), Barbie's parent, accuses nemesis Isaac Larian, father of the phenomenally successful Bratz dolls, and a number of former Mattel

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"ANKARA, Turkey -- On Aug. 16, 2005, a CNN television news bulletin alerted viewers that computers at the network's New York and Atlanta offices were infected with a new virus called Zotob. Soon, U.S. companies from coast to coast were hit. Halfway around the world, two young computer hackers in Turkey and Morocco got spooked by the ensuing media coverage, but mocked the ability of authorities to

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Tallahassee Police Department Cyber Crimes Unit tallahassee.com - www.tallahassee.com "Hard drive duplication is one of the first and most necessary steps required to perform an in-depth computer crimes investigation. Without evidence of a crime being committed, it is nearly impossible to successfully prosecute a case. Crime laboratory technicians duplicate the hard drive copying all of the

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Secret Service Investigates Computer Server Attack at Georgetown University - Government Technology: "Georgetown University announced Friday that the Secret Service is investigating an attack on a server containing personally identifiable information -- such as name, date of birth and Social Security numbers -- relating to more than 41,000 individuals who may have received services from the

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Legal IT: "The forensic investigation of data held on computers, laptops, cellular telephones, PDAs and other data processing and storage devices is a valuable resource in litigation and for dispute resolution. The recovery of deleted e-mails, and data cached to disk about which the user of the computer is una-ware, has proved a "quick kill" in many instances. Where fraud, dishonesty or

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"If you've got a fax machine, you've probably heard from companies that want to help you refinance your mortgage, lose weight fast and buy cheap office supplies. Some of them may even want to cut you in on the investment deal of a lifetime. Most junk faxes are illegal. If you've never had a business relationship with the sender or given permission to have faxes sent to you, the fax is against

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FBI Computer Forensics Lab "Identity thieves, child pornographers, hackers, fraudsters and other cybercriminals have a new foe in town: a Cybercrimes Command Center. The FBI is establishing the command center on the LSU campus, where it will be home to a task force of federal agents, city and parish detectives and forensic examiners who investigate computer-related crime. It also will house a

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Gov't Cyber-sleuths Focusing on Linux, iPod, Xbox "Cyber-security and computer experts from the government and law enforcement are increasingly concerned with malicious code that runs on Linux and Apple Computer Inc.'s Mac OS X operating systems and threats posed by devices such as iPods and Xboxes. Intensive courses on the Mac OS X and Linux operating systems, as well as iPods, were just a

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"Shortly after 1:30 a.m., "lickercat1982" uploaded an image to a Yahoo chat room. The image posted on the chat room "teen_girls_having_fun" was that of a naked young girl in what was described as a pornographic photo. Yahoo! Inc., the Internet provider, reported the discovery to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children as required by federal law. It would take nearly two years

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"Thieves raid database favoured by law enforcement agencies Major police forces across Canada, including the RCMP, OPP and the Toronto force, are among thousands of law enforcement agencies and forensic investigators whose private and financial information may have been stolen this month in a hacker attack, a published report says. Guidance Software, Inc., a private Pasadena, Calif., firm,

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"The proper collection, preservation, and forensic analysis of evidence is a tremendous tool that must be fully exploited. Since its inception, the FBI has been the world leader in using science to solve crimes. During its first year of operation in 1932, the FBI's forensics unit conducted 963 examinations. Currently, the FBI conducts more than one million forensic examinations annually. The

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Computer Forensics Services Tools Maker Hacked Guidance Software had to do a forensic investigation on its own systems after a hacker broke in and accessed records, including credit card data, of thousands of customers. . . . Guidance, one of the leading sellers of software used to investigate computer crimes, sent out letters last week to inform its customers about the breach. Some customers

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FBI investigates Taum Sauk failure "The Missouri State Highway Patrol on Friday asked for the FBI to help with its investigation of Wednesday's breach in the Taum Sauk dam. Members of the Highway Patrol's Division of Drug and Crime Control, which is the department's investigative unit, were at the Taum Sauk plant on Friday. They are investigating to determine whether the failure of the dam and

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"Some of the biggest headaches for fraud investigators and prosecutors stem from modern technology. June Philips of the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions in Brisbane, Australia, said computer technology and software allowed the cheap, large scale production of forged documents. 'The quality of forged items from passports, driver's licenses to electricity bills is astounding. Identity

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement "arrest was part of a global ICE investigation that focused on an Internet billing company based in Minsk, Belarus, the news release said. In January 2004, the Belarus company was charged with money laundering, providing credit card billing services for 50 child pornography Web sites worldwide and operating its own child pornography Web sites, the release

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If a computer holds a clue, this lab will find it $4 million investment cracks big cases By TONY RIZZO The Kansas City Star What's the best way to get into a criminal's head? One group of area sleuths knows: Get into their computers. That's what the men and women assigned to the Heart of America Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory do every day in their high-tech search for evidence of

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"Excerpt from appeals court's opinion: 'An FBI computer forensic expert found three of the e-mails and other incriminating documents on the hard drive of Ray's computer. The expert testified the e-mails and documents were created by someone typing on that computer and that someone had logged onto the Internet from that computer using the screen name and password used to send the e-mails. The

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Federal Bureau of Investigation - Computer Forensic Services: "The mission of the FBI Cyber Division is to: - coordinate, supervise and facilitate the FBI's investigation of those federal violations in which the Internet, computer systems, or networks are exploited as the principal instruments or targets of terrorist organizations, foreign government sponsored intelligence operations, or

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